Star Trek: Enterprise

Under the title Enterprise started in 2001 the U.S. television network UPN with the first showing of the fifth, playing in the fictional Star Trek universe live-action television series. UPN named the 2003 series, with the start of the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise and finished it around 2005, after four seasons with a total of 98 episodes. The German dubbed version beamed Sat.1 March 2003 to July 2006 for the first time out. Partly also the new title was used for the home theater Publications of the first two seasons.

  • 2.1 Instrumentation
  • 2.2 directors
  • 2.3 Title Music
  • 5.1 Coherence for Star Trek universe
  • 5.2 Possible reasons for lack of spectator interest

Content

Leader

In the opening credits of the following song is heard:

" Its been a long road, getting from there to here. It's been a long time, but my time is finally near. And I will see my dream come alive at last. I want to touch the sky. And they're not gonna hold me down no more, no they're not gonna change my mind Cause I've got faith of the heart. I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got faith to believe. I can do anything. I've got strength of the soul. And no one 's gonna bend or break me. I can reach any star. I've got faith. I've got faith. Faith of the heart. "

Translated into German means the song:

"It took a long time to get here from there. It was a long time, but my time has finally come. And I will see my dream finally comes true. I will touch the sky. And they will not hold me, no, they will not change my mind. Because I have faith in the heart. I go where my heart will take me. I have to believe the trust. No matter what I do. I have power in the soul. And no one can bend or break me. I can reach any star. I have faith. I have faith. The faith in his heart. "

Action

→ Main article: seasons 1, 2, 3, 4

Time plays the series from the year 2151, about 90 years after the first contact with the people of the Vulcans ( April 5, 2063 ) (see Star Trek: First Contact ), which is about a century before the first Star Trek series.

In the series makes up for the first time a space ship called Enterprise on the way to explore space and make contact with other species. The Vulcans are the people at that time still very skeptical. The first officer T'Pol volcanic therefore also has the function of a critical observer.

A " United Federation of Planets " is the beginning of the series yet just as often referred to in the temporally later settled series " Prime Directive " which forbids interference in the affairs of less developed cultures. Later introduced as commonplace techniques, such as "beaming " are still visible in its infancy.

Sign Bankrupts the first two seasons essentially the efforts of the crew to explore space and establish contact with other life forms, took the series in the third season of a turn. The Earth has been attacked, and seven million people died. The Enterprise should find the perpetrators and took him into a part of space in which the physical laws were not fully (→ see also: The extent). The series received a much darker atmosphere and confronted the figures with a number of problems that forced them to abandon previously unshakable principles, and they were much more complex and appear ambivalent. In addition, a common thread linking the individual episodes, so it viewers who missed some episodes, some seriously fell, get back into it in the series.

In the fourth season, efforts were intensified aim is to make connections to events of later Star Trek universe. The storylines ranged mostly about two or three episodes. After the threat of the third season was averted, the Enterprise returned to Earth, but came initially in the turmoil of the " Temporal Cold War ". Over the next three episodes you picked the first time mentioned in TOS " Eugenics War " (TOS: Space Seed ) on. It was followed by another miniseries, who led the Enterprise to Vulcan, where Captain Archer and T'Pol made ​​for a political revolution on the planet; here they met T'Pau, a figure that viewers from TOS is known. The emergence of the " Federation of Planets " is the next action line of the fourth season. In several episodes it is shown how the Andorians, and Vulcans Tellarites came through the mediation of the earth to an alliance. Initially tried to prevent this merger, the Romulans and later a fanatical sect on earth. A highlight of the series is the double episode is in the sinister mirror that plays in the " mirror universe ". This alternate universe first appeared in TOS ( Parallel Universe ). The connection to later events was here by a spaceship, the USS Defiant - a sister ship of Kirk's Enterprise - made ​​that the cobweb disappeared without a trace in the TOS episode and now shows up here again. In addition, the result showed a different version of the first contact with the Vulcans as the ones in Star Trek: First Contact was seen.

The last episode of the series played in 2161, six years after the penultimate. In this episode, it was a reunion with Commander Riker and Counselor Troi, two characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation, from whose perspective the last mission of the first Enterprise is described.

Production

Occupation

Minor characters (selection):

Directors

  • David Barrett
  • LeVar Burton
  • Jim Charleston
  • James A. Contner
  • James L. Conway
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Michael Dorn
  • Michael Grossman
  • Rob Hedden
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • Allan Kroeker
  • Les Landau
  • David Livingston
  • Robert Duncan McNeill
  • Patrick Norris
  • Marvin V. Rush
  • David Straiton
  • Michael Vejar
  • James Whitmore Jr.
  • Terry Windell

Many of these directors had previously directed the film in other Star Trek productions, Burton, Dawson, Dorn and McNeill had previously played a major role in one or more other Star Trek series and already collected in this way Star Trek experience. Only Barrett, Charleston, Contner, Grossman, Hedden, Norris, Straiton and Whitmore worked for the first time for the franchise.

Theme music

The title song Where My Heart Will Take Me was written by Diane Warren and sung in 2001 by Russell Watson. Under the title Faith of the Heart there was previously an interpretation of Rod Stewart on the soundtrack to the film published in 1998, " Patch Adams ". The title was remixed in 2003 for the third season.

Television broadcasting and audience reactions

The production of the series was discontinued prematurely after four seasons with a total of 98 episodes. The measure was justified by the UPN television with the low popularity of the television audience. In mid-year, the series has established itself at any time among the most popular formats 100 of the U.S. television. This fact has already led to the beginning of the third season brought about conceptual changes which, however, had no effect on the response of the audience. So there have been rumors that the UPN would drop the series to the end of the third season. This triggered strong fan reactions. Internet sites like SaveEnterprise.com called for general protests. A short time later those responsible were flooded at Paramount and UPN by a wave of e- mails and phone calls.

On 20 May 2004 UPN finally relented and gave a fourth season with 22 new episodes in order. At the same time the broadcast date of Wednesday was postponed to Friday, in the hope that the series would there have a similar success as before The X-Files or Miami Vice. UPN also made ​​it clear that the series will discontinued, unless the ratings of the fourth season vorwiesen no improvements. At least fans and critics certified the fourth season a significantly increasing quality; nevertheless the odds of the fourth season remained below the expected levels, although UPN on this otherwise always very weak Friday time slot with Enterprise, compared to the past, import very good results in the important target groups.

Despite further rescue attempts on the part of fans in front of the period, and particularly after the announcement UPN announced on February 2, 2005 that the series would be discontinued at the end of the fourth season. Offers special activities to produce another season (for example, in Canada) through cash donations were rejected by Paramount frequently, which ultimately meant that the biggest fan campaign to rescue Enterprise ( TrekUnited.com ) officially the end of rescue efforts on April 17, 2005 announced. Thus, " Star Trek: Enterprise " was the first Star Trek TV production since the original series (TOS), which was discontinued prematurely due to weak rates.

Also in Germany the expectations of the radiating transmitter Sat.1 remained unfulfilled. Beginning of 2004, the schedule was tilted, and you decided not to broadcast further still ungezeigter episodes of " Enterprise ".

Publications on Video

CBS has announced that Star Trek: Enterprise will also be released on Blu- ray Disc in 2013. The first season was released on March 28, 2013, the second on 5 September 2013 and the third was announced for March 6, 2014. In September 2014, the fourth and final season is expected to be released.

Reception

Coherence to the Star Trek universe

The series helps to increase the coherence of the Star Trek universe: So that is the result of the visitation for the first time - mainly in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine themed - mysterious and sometimes highly illegal Section 31 of the Starfleet security mentioned; also the ancestor of Dr. Noonien Soong is introduced by Dr. Arik Soong, the latter being the "father" of Lt. Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation is. In that very consequence also the first time the SS Botany Bay is mentioned that ship on which Khan Noonien Singh, the arch-enemy of Captain James T. Kirk: is ( TOS, Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan) in Cryostasis.

The series seeks to close some significant logic gaps in the Klingon Empire in socio - economic and physiological point of view, the latter. Especially in relation to the non-existent in TOS brow ridges of the Klingons Although it was planned in the original series, to use appropriate masks for the performers of the Klingons, this failed due to budget problems. Seen from the temporal perspective of the series - - missing Combs explained in the future by an experiment with human Augment DNA in conjunction with a viral infection in Enterprise are. As a result, the judgment is first noted that the Klingon Empire not existed from the beginning only of a warrior caste, but those have accepted the supremacy only in recent decades. This explains how the fixed only on war Klingon society could achieve a high technological and cultural development. As a reference to the original Star Trek films Captain Archer is sent by the Klingons on the prison moon Rura Penthe, on which also Captain James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy later (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ) are imprisoned.

Possible reasons for lack of spectator interest

The reasons for the lack of interest of the audience are speculative in nature.

In addition to inconsistencies within the Star Trek franchise ( the uninitiated viewers often can not immediately understand ) the series are certified and conceptual deficiencies and significant weaknesses in the dramaturgy.

By interested inconsistencies were taken to the previous canon increasingly note:

  • Style: Even before the first episode had gone through the transmitter, were sparked heated debate among fans about the space ship that would represent for the next seven years Star Trek. Soon, the new ship had nicknamed Akira pinch, because it is very similar to the Star Trek: First Contact -known Akira class has and was therefore regarded as a simple modification.
  • The name Enterprise has been hotly debated, since so far the Space Shuttle Enterprise OV -101 and the USS Enterprise XCV -330 as the only ships of this name before Star Trek the original series from the 1960s, which is located in the Star Trek universe later, were. In addition, confirmed on the 5th season of the series Deep Space Nine, Episode 6 Always the load with the Tribbles consecutive minutes 6.26 Captain Sisko against the agents of the Department of Temporal Investigations during his report to the sighting of the Enterprise NCC -1701 Captain Kirk during a journey literally: "It was the first enterprise. " the DS9 Season 5 was aired in the U.S. until 1997, four years before the first year of production of the new series Enterprise.
  • The Enterprise crew met in an episode of the Borg, which is not " canonical". Logically you take here though reference to the film First Contact, but the local Borg sphere has been destroyed in the vicinity of the earth. It is unclear how someone should have survived the explosion and how debris and Borg drones are said to have survived relatively unscathed entry into the atmosphere. When the Enterprise-D coincides with the Borg in time jump with Q, there seems to be no records from both the first encounter in Star Trek: Enterprise to enter as well as the nano - probes. Dr. Phlox was able also to negate the nano- probes infection in the 22nd century without this later to a corresponding entry referred to.
  • The team of Cpt. Archer had, apart from a previous journey, the first contact with the Ferengi. However, this contact was never mentioned in the The- Next-Generation episode The Guardian and there has been talk of a first contact with the Ferengi in the local action. It would also be unlikely that the Federation would continue despite drives had developed two centuries no further contact with the Ferengi.
  • In the episode Balance of the classic series suspected Spock does so as if a stealth technology had not yet been applied successfully. Already in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Enterprise use the Suliban a cloaking device, in order to approach their ship undetected to the Enterprise. Later in the series meet Cpt. Archer and the Enterprise crew on Romulans, which also expose their ships right in the back of the Enterprise. The canon is thus once again injured and fictional story was partially ignored.

As a conceptual difficulties are mentioned:

  • The nature of the project as a prequel: The production team faced the special challenge of producing a show that in terms of time before almost all played, what you had previously seen in the Star Trek universe, but still recognizable Star Trek was and contained things which make up this universe;
  • Parts of the art shown, such as the space suits with self-sealing and the uniforms are more modern than in the prequel previously produced series and films;
  • A limit on completed storylines within an episode. This is reflected from the third season with the introduction of follow -spanning actions invoice;
  • The choice of an extended target group (besides the fans ) and the concomitant of focus in which displeased some of the root target group. Thus, it is assumed that the benefit of Action of the ethical and moral discourse faded into the background. Similarly, the increasing brutality of the series is to evaluate from the third season, in which protagonists unethical practices, disclose ( information gathering with torture-like methods).

More controversy provoked the appointment of an antagonistic alien species named " Suliban " in reference to the Taliban. The choice of name was made only because of the exotic sound, but the eponymous Taliban moved then shortly before the premiere of the pilot episode of Star Trek: Enterprise through the attacks on the World Trade Center in the awareness of the general public.

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